Memorandum for Major Sutherland to inform Col. Hodgdon that the boats are not sufficient to carry the horses. Three more boats are needed and an attempt will be made to get Capt. Shafer's boats as well any others that can be found.

Mention William Knox, Mr. Colesworthy, and memorandum of two swords, which shall be attended to. Encloses a number of vouchers. Laments that present Quarter Master General refuses to advance money to pay off the old account. Mr Rease is displeased with pay offered.

Letter from Secretary Hamilton to Secretary Knox, regarding an act of Congress a month prior appropriating a further some of $30,000, in addition to the $76,000 already granted for the purpose of fortifying certain ports and harbors in the United States, making together $106,000. Hamilton requests that Knox furnishes him with a memorandum of the manner in which the sum is to be apportioned.

Secretary Hamilton informs Secretary Knox that no general Instructions have gone from the Treasury to the Collectors relative to the purchase of the lands on which fortifications might be erected. Encloses a memorandum of all the cases in which cessions and purchases have been made. The treaty for the purchase of the land on which the fortifications are erecting at Baltimore has been suspended.